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[The C27-steroid hydroxylating system from bovine liver mitochondria. Isolation of ferredoxin (hepatoredoxin) by affinity chromatography on cytochrome-c-sepharose].

A technique for the isolation of highly purified hepatoredoxin involving the DE-32 cellulose chromatography of post-mitochondrial supernatant, ammonium-sulfate fractionation, Sephadex G-75 gel chromatography, 1-amino-2-hydroxypropyl-Sepharose ion-exchange chromatography and cytochrome-c-Sepharose affinity chromatography is described. The protein was purified 160-fold with a yield of 19%. The synthesis of cytochrome-c-Sepharose was carried out in a way preventing modification of the lysine-containing binding domain of the cytochrome c molecule. To achieve this, free carboxyl groups were modified with histamine to introduce imidazole residues in cytochrome c and the modified protein was immobilized on bromoacetyl-Sepharose.

Animals↗

Endogenous factors possessing lymphoid chalone properties, purified by chromatography.

Lymphoid chalone extracts, obtained from bovine spleen were purified on chromatographic columns: in the first step of the procedure, exclusion chromatography on Sephadex G75, and ion exchange chromatography on DEAE Sephadex were applied. A purified, active material was thus obtained. Upon thin layer chromatography, this fraction was shown to contain 3-4 UV absorbing components and 2 ninhydrin positive components. Further purification on Biogel P2, on Sephadex G10 and preparative thin layer chromatography, showed that the biological activity was located in small molecular weight components which belong to the polypeptide series. The ultraviolet absorbing components were identified as known nucleosides. The purified material shows an inhibitory effect on the uptake of 3H-thymidine by lymphocytes, as well as on mitogen induced lymphocyte transformation and haemolysin plaque forming cells. Furthermore, this inhibitory effect is specific for lymphoid cells.

Animals↗

New methods of protein purification. Displacement chromatography.

This review discusses a new method for protein purification, displacement chromatography. Elution of proteins bound to an adsorbent is carried out in displacement chromatography by a substance, the so-called "displacer", which has a higher affinity for the chromatographic matrix than any of the adsorbed proteins. The latter are "pushed out" from the matrix by the displacer and form a displacement train when moving along the column. The component with the weakest affinity moves first, and the one with the highest affinity moves last in the train. The concentration of the component in the displacement zone is determined by the intersection of the operating line and binding isotherm of the given component. The shape of the displacement zone is close to rectangular. A more powerful resolving force is created compared to other methods of selective elution, especially at high column loadings, when nearly the whole working capacity of the column is used. Independence of component concentration in the displacement zone on its content in the feed allows significant concentrating of the purified protein during displacement chromatography. Examples of application of displacement chromatography for the separation of model protein systems and purification of proteins from crude extracts are discussed as well as methods of column regeneration.

Chromatography↗

Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography and chemometrics for the high-speed quantitative analysis of aromatic isomers in a jet fuel using the standard addition method and an objective retention time alignment algorithm

A high-speed quantitative analysis of aromatic isomers in a jet fuel sample is performed using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC x GC) and chemometrics. A GC x GC separation time of 2.8 min is achieved for three aromatic isomers in jet fuel, which is 5 times faster than a reference method in which a singlecolumn separation resolves two of the three isomers of interest. The high-speed GC x GC separation is more than 10 times faster than a recent GC x GC separation that fully resolves the three components of interest in gasoline. The high-speed GC x GC analysis of jet fuel is accomplished through short GC columns, high gas velocities, and partial chromatographic peak resolution followed by chemometric resolution of overlapped peaks. The standard addition method and an objective retention time alignment algorithm are used to correct for retention time variations prior to the chemometric data analysis. The standard addition method corrects for chemical matrix effects that cause analytes in complex samples to have peak shapes, widths, and retention times that differ considerably from those of calibration standards in pure solvents. The retention time alignment algorithm corrects for the relatively small retention time variations caused by fluctuating instrumental parameters such as flow rate and temperature. The use of data point interpolation in the retention time alignment algorithm results in a more accurate retention time correction then previously achieved. The generalized rank annihilation method (GRAM) is the chemometric technique used to resolve the overlapped GC x GC peaks. The correction of retention time variations allows for successful GRAM signal deconvolution. Using the retention time alignment algorithm, GRAM quantification accuracy and precision are improved by a factor of 4. The methodology used in this paper should be applicable to other comprehensive separation methods, such as two-dimensional liquid chromatography, liquid chromatography coupled with capillary electrophoresis, and liquid chromatography coupled with gas chromatography.

Journal Article↗

Characterization of human liver alpha-D-mannosidase purified by affinity chromatography.

Human liver acidic alpha-D-mannosidase was purified 1400-fold by a relatively short procedure incorporating chromatography on concanavalin A-Sepharose and affinity chromatography on Sepharose 4B-epsilon-aminohexanoylmannosylamine. In contrast with the acidic enzymic activity the neutral alpha-mannosidase did not bind to the concanavalin A-Sepharose so the two types of alpha-mannosidase could be separated at an early stage in the purification. The only significant glycosidase contaminant after affinity chromatography on the mannosylamine ligand was alpha-L-fucosidase, which was selectively removed by affinity chromatography on the corresponding fucosylamine ligand. The final preparation was free of other glycosidase activities. The pI of the purified enzyme was increased from 6.0 to 6.45 on treatment with neuraminidase. Although the pI and the mol.wt. (220 000) suggested that alpha-mannosidase A had been purified selectively, ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose indicated that the preparation consisted predominantly of alpha-mannosidase B. This discrepancy is discussed in relation to the basis of the multiple forms of human alpha-mannosidase. The purified enzyme completely removed the alpha-linked non-reducing terminal mannose from a trisaccharide isolated from the urine of a patient with mannosidosis. A comparison of the activity of the pure enzyme towards the natural substrate and synthetic substrates suggests that the same enzymic activity is responsible for hydrolysing all the substrates. These results validate the use of synthetic substrates for determining the mannosidosis genotype. They are also further evidence that mannosidosis is a lysosomal storage disease resulting from a deficiency of acidic alpha-mannosidase.

Disaccharidases↗

Analysis of complex samples by solvating gas chromatography (supercritical fluid to gas transition).

The various forms of chromatography are primarily determined by differences in the physical state of the mobile phases. The main chromatographic categories include gas chromatography (GC), liquid chromatography, and supercritical fluid chromatography. Adjusting a temperature and pressure will change the mobile phase from liquid to supercritical fluid to gas, with concomitant changes in their physical properties. In this paper, the technique transition-phase chromatography (TPC) is described. In TPC, different mobile phase conditions exist inside the column. This phase transformation within the column results in huge differences in density, solvating power, viscosity, diffusivity, and, as a consequence, in the chromatographic properties of the mobile phase. TPC experiments using capillary columns packed in our laboratory have shown that when the mobile phase is transformed from supercritical fluid to gas, high column efficiencies can be achieved. The transition from supercritical fluid to gas (also called solvating GC), a particular case of the TPC, is evaluated for the separation of complex real samples (environmental, food, and fuels).

Journal Article↗

Comprehensive two-dimensional high-performance liquid chromatography for the isolation of overexpressed proteins and proteome mapping.

A two-dimensional liquid chromatographic system is described here which uses size-exclusion liquid chromatography (SEC) followed by reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) to separate the mixture of proteins resulting from the lysis of Escherichia coli cells and to isolate the proteins that they produce. The size-exclusion chromatography can be conducted under either denaturing or nondenaturing conditions. Peaks eluting from the first dimension are automatically subjected to reversed-phase chromatography to separate similarly sized proteins on the basis of their various hydrophobicities. The RPLC also serves to desalt the analytes so that they can be detected in the deep ultraviolet region at 215 nm regardless of the SEC mobile phase used. The two-dimensional (2D) chromatograms produced in this manner then strongly resemble the format of stained 2D gels, in that spots are displayed on a X-Y axis and intensity represents quantity of analyte. Following chromatographic separation, the analytes are deposited into six 96-well (576 total) polypropylene microtiter plates via a fraction collector. Interesting fractions are analyzed by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF/MS) or electrospray mass spectrometry (ESI/MS) depending on sample concentration, which both yield accurate (2 to 0.02%) molecular weight information on intact proteins without any additional sample preparation, electroblotting, destaining, etc. The remaining 97% of a fraction can then be used for other analyses, such Edman sequencing, amino acid analysis, or proteolytic digestion and sequencing by tandem mass spectrometry. This 2D HPLC protein purification and identification system was used to isolate the src homology (SH2) domain of the nonreceptor tyrosine kinase pp60c-src and beta-lactamase, both inserted into E. coli, as well as a number of native proteins comprising a small portion of the E. coli proteome.

Bacterial Proteins↗

A high-performance liquid chromatography method for the detection of diaminopimelic acid in urine.

We describe a quantitative assay for diaminopimelic acid (DAP) in urine. It involves (i) hydrolysis of urine samples, (ii) purification by several different liquid chromatography steps, and (iii) analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography on a reversed-phase C18 column. Tritiated-DAP, the internal standard, allows one to precisely follow the DAP-containing fractions and to determine the yield during purification. Sensitive and relatively accurate quantification of DAP, with a threshold of 50 fmol, is based on ion-pairing properties of eluants and ortho-phthaldialdehyde derivatization. The presence of DAP in relevant fractions was confirmed by combined gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. The DAP concentration in adult human urine pooled over 24 h ranges from 0.69 to 2.01 microM, a result in fair agreement with previously published values obtained by ninhydrin derivatization or gas chromatography.

Adult↗

Isolation of drugs from blood by column chromatography on Amberlite XAD-2.

An investigation was carried out on the isolation of 28 drugs from blood by column chromatography on Amberlite XAD-2. The following substances were added to postmortem blood specimens at concentrations generally of 1--10 microgram/ml: barbital, heptabarbital, hexobarbital, pentobarbital, phenobarbital, phenylbutazone, monocrotophos, amidopyrine, carbromal, diazepam, meprobamate, methaqualone, nitrazepam, phenazetin, chlorpromazine, dibenzepin, diphenhydramine, haloperidol, imipramine, mescaline, methadone, morphine, pentazocine, pethidine, tilidine, triflupromazine, verapamil, N-propylajmalinium bitartrate. The samples were purified by column chromatography on Amberlite XAD-2 and simple solvent extraction and subsequently quantitated by gas chromatography. By systematic variation of the conditions for adsorption of the drugs and desorption from the resin, revoveries of more than 80% after XAD-2 column chromatography could be achieved for most drugs. Thereby it was demonstrated, that in cases of fatal poisoning or emergencies this procedure is a valuable tool for forensic and clinical toxicologists who have to find out the toxic agent by chemical analysis of the blood.

Chromatography, Gas↗

Ion-exchange high-performance liquid-chromatography steps in peptide purifications.

Ion-exchange high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC; on Ultropac TSK DEAE and CM) is compared with conventional soft-gel ion-exchange chromatography in identical peptide purifications. The results show that separating properties are similar, but as expected, ion-exchange HPLC has a much higher resolving capacity and a higher sensitivity, and allows a considerably shorter total separation time. The same buffer systems as for conventional ion-exchange chromatography can be used, including urea to solubilize large peptides, if care is taken not to exceed the pH limits set by the column matrix. A complete purification scheme by HPLC in the nanomolar range, utilizing exclusion, ion-exchange, and reverse-phase chromatographies, is given with a complex peptide mixture from a digest of a large protein. Similar steps as in conventional soft-gel schemes can be utilized. It is concluded that ion-exchange HPLC is a suitable complement to commonly used reverse-phase HPLC steps and that it permits high speed and sensitivity over wide ranges of peptide sizes and amounts.

Aldehyde Dehydrogenase↗

The purification and identification of flavin nucleotides by high-performance liquid chromatography.

Many preparations of flavin nucleotides contain nucleotide isomers of the natural compounds which are difficult to remove or separate. The method of dynamic complex-exchange (or paired-ion) chromatography has been used with high-performance liquid chromatography to achieve resolution and purification of isomers. A solution of nucleotide in water was chromatographed isocratically on a C18-substituted silica column with a mobile phase of methanol, water, and tetrabutylammonium phosphate at neutral pH. Commercial preparations of FMN and FAD contained multiple components. The purified isomers were subjected to ion-exchange chromatography directly on a quaternary nitrogen-substituted silica column to remove methanol and tetrabutylammonium cation, and thus obtain pure nucleotide in aqueous buffer suitable for use with proteins. With analytical equipment, a milligram of pure FMN or FAD was produced in 1 day. The same procedure was useful for the rapid identification and quantitation of flavin nucleotides in proteins. After exposure of a protein solution to heat treatment, the supernatant was subjected to dynamic complex-exchange chromatography, as described above.

Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid↗

Heparin-agarose chromatography for the purification of tetrahydrofolate utilizing enzymes: C1-tetrahydrofolate synthase and 10-formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase.

Rapid and convenient purification procedures based upon heparin-agarose chromatography for C1-tetrahydrofolate synthase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and 10-formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase from Clostridium acidi-urici have been developed. The purification of the yeast enzyme involves three chromatographic steps that can be done rapidly, with no intervening dialyses, and results in high yield. The first step alone, heparin-agarose chromatography, is sufficient to purify the enzyme from yeast bearing a cloned copy of the ADE3 gene that overexpresses the protein. The other steps in the purification from wild-type yeast are matrex gel red A and phenyl-Sepharose chromatography. The purification of the clostridial enzyme involves protamine sulfate fractionation and heparin-agarose chromatography. Heparin-agarose also binds two other enzymes that use tetrahydrofolate, 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate cyclohydrolase and 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase. Thus, heparin-agarose should prove useful in purification of a variety of enzymes that utilize tetrahydrofolate or its derivatives as a cofactor.

Aminohydrolases↗

Assay of inorganic sulfate in biologic fluids by nonsuppressed (single-column) ion chromatography.

An assay using nonsuppressed (single-column) anion chromatography was developed to determine the concentration of inorganic sulfate in biologic fluids. A conventional HPLC system with an anion-exchange column and conductimetric detector interfaced with an automatic injector and integrator was used. The mobile phase for the chromatography of urine and serum samples is 4 mM potassium hydrogen phthalate, pH 4.5, and potassium iodide is used as the internal standard. For cerebrospinal fluid samples, the mobile phase is modified by addition of 10% of a 4 mM phthalic acid solution. Results of the HPLC assay were found to correlate well (r = 0.991 and 0.999) with those of two commonly used spectrophotometric methods for urine and serum inorganic sulfate determinations. However, the concentrations determined by ion chromatography were 2.5 to 10% lower, possibly due to less assay interference by other substances following chromatographic separation of sulfate. Anion chromatography using a single-column system is a convenient and relatively inexpensive method with sufficient sensitivity for the determination of inorganic sulfate concentrations in urine, serum, and cerebrospinal fluid.

Animals↗

Separation of oligosaccharides by capillary supercritical fluid chromatography and analysis by direct coupling to high-resolution mass spectrometer: application to analysis of oligomannosidic N-glycans.

Supercritical fluid chromatography separations and supercritical fluid chromatography chemical ionization mass spectrometry analysis of permethylated and pertrimethylsilylated oligosaccharides are reported. Supercritical fluid chromatography was carried out using a DB-5 coated capillary column with carbon dioxide as a mobile phase. Peralkylated oligosaccharides were detected by flame ionization and by chemical ionization mass spectrometry using the GC interface. Analysis of permethylated malto-oligosaccharides, as well as oligomannosides from mannosidosis, was achieved by chemical ionization mass spectrometry with ammonia and provided the pseudo-molecular ions (M+H)+ and (M+NH4)+, in addition to some other fragments which allow interpretations of the structure of different oligosaccharides. The good resolution and sensitivity obtained emphasize the potential of supercritical fluid chromatography mass spectrometry for rapid separations and analysis of complex glycan mixtures.

Chromatography↗

Quantitation of type I, III, and V collagens in human tissue samples by high-performance liquid chromatography of selected cyanogen bromide peptides.

A method to determine the proportions of the major fiber-forming collagens (types I, III, and V) in noncartilaginous human tissues is presented. The procedure relies on direct solubilization of tissue collagen as cyanogen bromide peptides. The peptides are subjected to cation exchange chromatography followed by gel permeation chromatography in a manner consistent with the rapid resolution and quantitation of relatively low-molecular-weight marker peptides for each collagen. The marker peptides utilized for type I, III, and V collagens are alpha 1 (I)-CB2, alpha 1 (III)-CB2, and alpha 1 (V)-CB1, respectively. Quantitation of the peptides is attained as a function of ultraviolet absorbance during gel permeation chromatography. The nature of the marker peptides, the use of high-performance liquid chromatography techniques, and quantitation of the peptides by ultraviolet absorbance renders the method suitably rapid, sensitive, and accurate for routine evaluations of collagen composition. The utility of the method is illustrated in the presentation of analyses on specimens of placental membranes and blood vessel walls.

Chromatography, Gel↗

A method for specific analysis of free fatty acids in biological samples by capillary gas chromatography.

The present report describes a simple method to selectively extract free fatty acids and analyze them by capillary gas-liquid chromatography. The procedure is based on the use of fumed silicon dioxide. In the presence of plasma, this material induces a rapid rise in the viscosity of the mixture and presents the ability to trap large particles such as emulsified lipids and lipoproteins. Albumin-bound fatty acids are thus left in the aqueous media. We present applications of our procedure for the analysis of free fatty acids in 0.2 ml of plasma from rat or human. By comparison with the method utilizing thin-layer chromatography for the separation of fatty acids and gas chromatography analysis, the present method has been found to be reliable and simple. The recovery of linoleic acid was 92.1 +/- 8.2%, a value which is about twice better than that obtained with the procedure using thin-layer chromatography. In particular, long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids were better preserved. Our procedure does not require the use of organic solvents and its simplicity and reproducibility make it suitable for routine specific determination of the composition of free fatty acids in biological samples.

Animals↗

Separation of cyclodextrins and their derivatives by thin-layer and preparative column chromatography.

Cyclodextrins, their derivatives and products of their partial hydrolysis are clearly separated by chromatography on silica gel by mobile phases containing aqueous ammonia and organic solvent (acetonitrile or 1-propanol). This system allows separation of compounds with different numbers of substituents on cyclodextrin, but does not allow the separation of isomers; the system can be used both for thin-layer chromatography and for preparative column chromatography. The isomers in the fraction thus obtained can be in some cases separated, after peracetylation, by chromatography on silica gel using a mobile phase consisting of methanol and dichloromethane. This chromatographic sequence potentially yields derivatives of cyclodextrins in quantities which enable evaluation of their solubilization and biological properties.

Acetylation↗

Histamine-releasing activity. V. Characterization and purification using high-performance liquid chromatography.

The production of large quantities of the lymphokine(s) histamine-releasing activity (HRA) and its partial purification by Sephadex G-75 and ion-exchange chromatography on carboxymethyl (CM) Sepharose 6B have been detailed (M. A. Lett-Brown, D. O. Thueson, D. E. Plank, M. P. Langford, and J. A. Grant, Cell. Immunol. 87, 434-444, 1984). Two peaks of activity (HRA I and II) were recovered. Preparations of HRA have now been analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Thoracic duct lymphocytes stimulated with 200 U/ml streptokinase were used as a source of HRA. Gel-filtration HPLC on a TSK 3000 column separated HRA into two peaks of activity (10,000-20,000 and 1300 Da). Reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography using a Nucleosil C-8 column showed that HRA II (the activity eluted at a conductivity of 18-20 mmho on the CM-Sepharose column) eluted as a single sharp peak, the main protein contaminant being cytochrome c, the carrier protein added to enhance the yield of HRA. High-performance liquid chromatography was found to be a useful analytical tool and may be suitable for the large-scale purification of HRA.

Chromatography, Gel↗